Game or puzzle.



No. 685,639. Patented Oct. 29,190].

H. H. 'OUA.

' GAME 0R PUZZLE.

(Application filed. June 20, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY I-I. QUA, OF CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME 0R PUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,639, dated October 29, 1901.

Application filed June 20, 1901.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. QUA, a citizen of the United States, residingin Concord, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Games or Puzzles, of which the following'is a specification.

This invention relates to that variety of games or puzzles in which dift'eren tly-marked balls are rolled from an inclosure through suit-able passages to different predetermined inclosures or places according to the marks of the balls by tilting or otherwise manipulating the game-board without-touching said balls, the operation requiring care and skill on the part of the manipulator.

Said invention consists in the devices and combinations hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the board with balls; Fig. 2, a vertical Section of the board and of the cover on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1, showing balls retained in one of theinclosures by said cover; Fig. 3, a plan of the cover.

The game-board consists of a base A,.preferably a block, as of wood, in which the inclosures and con necti n g -passages are made in the form of cavities bored into or dug out of said block. In the first inclosure B, at the left in Figs. 1 and 2, the walls or sides are curved or circular and the bottom is provided arc of a circle.

with spots I) or slight depressions, on which are placed a number of balls, preferably an equal number of each of two different colors, as three black balls D and three white balls E, which spots I) are best arranged in an The number of spots b and balls D E may be varied, and I have shown seven such spots. Another spot; I) is shown,

on which is placed a ball F, of a third color,

as yellow. The second inclosure G is also circular and is shown in position to be about externally tangent to the inclosure B, if these inclosures were complete circles, but they are connected by a comparatively broad passage G, made, if said inclosures are cavities in a block, by cutting away the block between vertical planes or walls '9 g. The inclosure G contains a central circular cavity H of sufficient depth below the annular upper floor Serial No. 65,237- (No model.)

g of said inclosure G and of sufficient diameter to receive all the balls D E F when the game-board is notin use. From theinclosure G two diverging passages I I, having acommon entrance, extend into smallerinclosures or chambers J J, which serve as goals for the black balls and white balls, respectively. The goal for the ball Fis a spot torslight depression common tothe passages I I".

The size of the balls is such with relation to the width of the passages I I that when the ball F is on the spot 11 no other ball can pass said ball F without knockingit off from said spot-and probably into one of the goals J J. The bottoms of the inclosures E Grand passages G I I are in the same plane; but

the pit or cavity H and the inclosu res J J are deeper, in orderto retain the balls which fall into them.

The balls after being placed on the proper spots in the inclosure B are caused by tilting care being taken to avoid knocking theball F into one of the goals J J.

When the game-board and balls are used by two or more players, forfeits may be imposed for letting any ball fall into the pit or into the wrong goal.

When the game-board is not in use,.all the balls are placed in the pit or cavity H and I are retained therein by a cover which is rep resented as a plate K of sheet metal resting on the annular floor g and having cars It,

which press outwardly against the walls of the inclosure G and retain saidcoverin place by friction on said walls.

I claim as my invention- 1. A game-board provided with an lnclosu re having spots, another inclosure having a central circular depression or cavity, a passage connecting said inclosu res, goals or cavities, and other passages having a common entrance and leading from said second-nam ed inclosu re into said goals.

2. Agame-board provided with an inclosure having spots, another inclosure having a central circular depression or cavity, a passage connecting said inclosures, goals or cavities,

otherpassages having a common entrance and leading from said second-named inclosnre into said goals and another goal or spot common to said last-named passages.

3. A game-board provided with an inclosure having spots, another inclosure having a central circular depression or cavity, a passage connecting said inclosnres,goals or cavities, other passages havingacommon entrance and leading from said second-named inclosure into said goals and another goal or spot common to said last-named passages, in combination with balls, in two sets, differently marked for each of said lirstnamed goals, and a single ball, difierently marked from the balls of either of said sets and adapted When placed on said goal in said passages, to prevent the passing of any other ball through either of said passages.

4. Agame-hoard,provided with an inclosure having spots, another inclosnre having acentral circular depression or cavity, a passage connecting said inclosnres, goals or cavities, and other passages having a common entrance and leading from said second-named inclosure into said goals, in combination with balls and a cover, arranged to fit said secondnamed inclosure and having ears to press against the walls of the same and to be retained therein by friction and to hold said balls in said depression or cavity.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HEN RY H. QUA.

Witnesses:

ALBERT M. MooRE, MIRIAM S. QUA. 

